Muirhead v. Mecham’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 14 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably McCloskey v. Mueller (2006), Asociación De Subscripción Conjunta Del Seguro De Responsabilidad Obligatorio v. Flores Galarza (2007)
12 federal appellate · 17 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · United States v. King · Dugan v. Rank · Block v. North Dakota Board of University and School Lands North Dakota Board of University and School Lands
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] suit, although nominally aimed at an official, will be considered one against the sovereign `if the judgment sought would expend itself on the public treasury or domain, or interfere with the public administration, or if the effect of the judgment would be to restrain the Government from acting, or to compel it to act.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute that confers the power to act is unconstitutional or if the officer exercises that power in an unconstitutional manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Rettig“It is beyond cavil that, as the sovereign, the United States is immune from suit without its consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCloskey v. Mueller
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.